Day 01
St. Simeon Monastery by Nile Boat and Camel Ride
- Take a break from ancient temples to see the Monastery of St. Simeon on a private half-day trip from Aswan.
- Enjoy your St. Simeon Monastery tour in Aswan. Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel or Nile cruise in Aswan to sail on the Nile by motorboat to St. Simeon Monastery.
- Join a camel ride to the southern tip of Elephantine Island, where you will find St. Simeon's Monastery, an ancient, abandoned fortress-monastery mostly built during the 7th century and located near Aswan. The monastery was given the name St. Simeon by archaeologists and travellers, but earlier Arabic and Coptic sources called it Anba Hatre (Hidra, Hadri, Hadra), after an anchorite who was consecrated bishop of Syene (now Aswan) by Patriarch Theophilus (385-412 AD). Anba Hatre married at the age of eighteen. Tradition says that just after the wedding, he encountered a funeral procession, which inspired him to preserve his chastity and later become a disciple of Saint Baiman. After eight years of ascetic practice under the supervision of his teacher, he retired to the desert and applied himself to the study of the life of Saint Antony. He died during the time of Theodosius I.
- Finally, return to the hotel.
